Improvement in washing-machines



l. K. HU'NT. Washing-Machine's.

Patented Sept. 29,1874.

INVENTOR WITNESSES QM Wm fwe @Wm, BY W ATTORN EYS UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

JOSIAH K. HUNT, OF BALDWIN, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155.446, datedSeptember 29, 1874; application filed May 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSIAH K. HUNT, ofBaldwin, in the county of Jackson and State of Iowa, have invented a newand valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of mywashing-machine, and Fig.2 is a plan view.

This invention has relation to machines for cleansing fabrics by passingthem between rollers arranged on top of a wash-tub; and the noveltyconsists in the detachable washing-machine hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

I11 the annexed drawings, A designates an ordinary wash-tub, on which isremovably secured a rectangular frame consisting of longitudinal bars BB and transverse bars 0 U, rigidly secured together. E designates acorrugat-ed roller, the corrugations of which extend from one end of itto the other. This roller is secured on a shaft, F, which has its endbearings in the side bars B B, and is provided with a hand-crank, G. D Ddesignate two rollers, which are also corrugated, and which are of lessdiameter than the roller E. The corrugations in these rollers are largerand farther apart than those of the roller E, so that during the passageof the fabrics back and forward between the rollers the corrugationswill operate to a much better advantage than if they were uniformlydisposed on all of the rollers. The twin rollers D D have their endbearings in journal boxes or eyes 8, formed'on the free extremities ofsprings S, which springs are secured by bolts to the side bars B B.These springs S will keep the rollers D D down upon the fabrics, andallow the rollers to yield independently of each other, and accommodatethemselves to varying thicknesses of fabrics. At the end of the threerollers E D D are thin metal guards J J, through which the roller-shaftspass freely, which guards will prevent the fabrics from running off theends of the rollers, and also prevent water from being forced OK atthese points.

1 am well aware a washing-machine having grooved rollers mounted inarmshinged independently of each other, as shown in Letters Patent No.77,252, dated April 28, 1868, are not new, and therefore I do not claimsuch invention, broadly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The detachable washing-machine, consisting of the rectangular frame, thecorrugated rollers D D and E, and the springs s s, as described, and forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JOSIAH K. HUNT.

Witnesses:

ABNER HUNT, ANos BIEBER.

